On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Faré <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that you'll find no one to bless your changes, as ASDF > does not have a clearly defined dictator, the original author having left, > our main maintainer not having the resources to become one, and a vast > undefined community of users not being able to provide a clear permission > wrt making incompatible changes since it's not clear what in the > implementation or its documentation is binding for the future and what isn't.
Understood. > I propose you offer a patch, and convince people with lots of systems to > try it. I'm volunteering to try your backwards-incompatible ASDF > improvements on all the systems used at ITA. Possibly, the DWIM.hu guys > will try it on all the systems they have, and so on. If no one complains > (and why should they?) then your patch will be a strong candidate for > inclusion. That automated test framework of yours is also a good thing > to show that your changes are not harmful. When I find time, in a week or so, I will try to produce a set of patches for the following things: - A new function that creates a sorted list of module dependencies wrapping around TRAVERSE This function should produce the same result irrespectively of what has been loaded or compiled. - Building on that, a new file, asdf-ecl.lisp that provides new operations for building standalone executables, fasls and other niceties with ECL. - A logging facility for ASDF, with a bit more cleaned up interface. - A test operation that builds on the logging facility and which can be completed by any test framework. Note that my changes are *not* backwards incompatible and do *not* change TRAVERSE, but any further change that alters the TRAVERSE function and its output will break the first two add-ons. Furthermore, in order to answer your question, what I expect of the test facility is that once every framework hooks in, one is able to write (defsystem :my-package :components ((:file "my-package")) :in-order-to ((test-op (rt-test-op :my-package-test)))) In the mean time, one will have to resort to EQL specialized methods, though. Juanjo -- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
